My Best Rockhounding Finds of 2023!! Cool Crystals, Specimens and More! Ontario Rockhound

What a year! 2023 has been a blast for me, I had so many awesome rockhounding experiences and got to meet and become friends with so many cool folks in the community.
For those interested in seeing the videos of some of the specimens I show case in the video please see the links below.
Selenite: • Finding Fluorite and M...
Calcite 1-2: • Rockhounding Cool Calc...
Calcite 3: • Hunting For Awesome Ca...
Milky Quartz: • Discovering A Cool Qua...
Scapolite/Pyroxene: • Finding Interesting Sc...
Peristerite: • Finding Awesome Perist...
Apatite/Mica: • Finding Awesome Apatit...
Lost Lake Zinc Mine: • Collecting Awesome Glo...
Mount Boucherie Agates: • Hunting For Agates And...
Gold/Garnets: • Ontario Rockhound Goes...
Mesolite/Calcite: • Finding Very Cool Crys...
Molybdenite: • Finding Awesome Silver...
Smokey Quartz: • Discovering A New Quar...
Amphibole/Mica: • Finding Amazing Crysta...
Titanite: • Finding More Awesome T...
Actinolite/Diopside: • Hunting For Awesome Gr...
Garnet: • Finding Gemmy Red Oran...
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[@Mike-br8vb]

The Zeolite was very cool, great finds!

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Yes, I was pretty happy with it as I have not found too many of them.

[@GREEKEXPLORERS]

Amazing video!! Thanks for sharing!!

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Thanks 🙂

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

You had some really fantastic finds!

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Thank you!

[@mrimc]

The biotite book looks very cool.

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Thank you!

[@CoinandRelicOntario]

Some cool and unusual finds Aiden. Looks like you had a fun 2023. 👍

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Thanks Andrew!

[@historylooker7]

They're all awesome, but I really like the 3 crystals on the piece of Mica sheets !!!
Great video as always, buddy 😃👍!!!

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Thanks, those apatite crystals are pretty sweet!

[@historylooker7]

@@Ontario_Rockhound
For a fact 👍

[@RAM-Outdoor-Adventures]

Congrats on your finds, man they are awesome!

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Thank you 2023 was a killer year for hopefully 2024 will be the same, solar it has been.

[@dawnatilla2469]

9:21 rock envy its a thing

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

They're pretty cool eh.

[@amusingautomatons2692]

Great stuff! For the Scheel Drive -- do you stick to the exposed rock on Scheel, or do you venture out to the rock dump by hopping the fence?

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Thabk you. Didn't want to break the rules. Everything I found there came out of discard piles on the sides or, in some cases, pockets in the roadcut

[@amusingautomatons2692]

@@Ontario_Rockhound I'm curious about said rules - doesn't look like it's private property (i.e. it's land acquired by the city for construction) but I could be wrong. Thanks!

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

@amusingautomatons2692 my understanding was it was fenced off for a reason, but hey if there's no rules against it I might take a look next time

[@thelizabeth909]

Very nice finds. Video is hard to watch because of the constant movement of the crystals. Better to rotate slowly.

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Thanks, I will try to move slower next time.